To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.